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Title South Asian writers in English / [edited by] Fakrul Alam
Published Detroit : Thomson Gale, ©2006
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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 490 pages) : illustrations
Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 323
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 323
Contents Meena Alexander (1951- ) -- Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) -- Ahmed Ali (1908-1994) -- Monica Ali (1967- ) -- Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004) -- Sujata Bhatt (1956- ) -- Upamanyu Chatterjee (1959- ) -- Amit Chaudhuri (1962- ) -- Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897-1999) -- Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) -- Kamala Das (1934- ) -- Mahesh Dattani (1958- ) -- Anita Desai (1937- ) -- G.V. Desani (1909-2000) -- Shashi Deshpande (1938- ) -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956- ) -- Nissim Ezekiel (1924-2004) -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) -- Zulfikar Ghose (1935- ) -- Amitav Ghosh (1956- ) -- Romesh Gunesekera (1954- ) -- Sunetra Gupta (1965- ) -- Kaiser Haq (1950- ) -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927- ) -- Girish Karnad (1938- ) -- Adib Khan (1949- ) -- Arun Kolatkar (1932-2004_ -- Jhumpa Lahiri (1967- ) -- Jayanta Mahapatra (1928- ) -- Kamala Markandaya (1924-2004) -- Ved Mehta (1934- ) -- Dom Moraes (1938-2004) -- Bharati Mukherjee (1940- ) -- R.K. Narayan (1906-2001) -- Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) -- Michael Ondaatje (1943- ) -- Taufiq Rafat (1927-1998) -- A.K. Ramanujan (1929-1993) -- Raja Rao (1908- ) -- Arundhati Roy (1961- ) -- Salman Rushdie (1947- ) -- Nayantara Sahgal (1927- ) -- Shyam Selvadurai (1965- ) -- Vikram Seth (1952- ) -- Khushwant Singh (1915- ) -- Ambalavaner Sivanandan (1923- ) -- Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Summary Essays on South Asian writers in English from all parts of the subcontinent who share a common fascination with the English language. South Asian writing in English is thriving and worth reading and studying, either as a whole or separately as Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan or Bangladeshi literature. Discusses the fate of the English language after the British left South Asia and the exile's return to a country that has changed and the search for roots
Notes "A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Authors, South Asian -- Biography -- Dictionaries
South Asian literature (English) -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
Authors, South Asian.
English Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Dictionaries.
Form Electronic book
Author Alam, Fakrul.
Gale Research Inc
LC no. 2005035602
ISBN 0787681415
9780787681418